Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 9th International Conference, Xp 2008, Limerick, Ireland, June 11-14, 2008, Proceedings

by Abrahamsson, Pekka; Baskerville, Richard; Conboy, Kieran; Fitzgerald, Brian; Morgan, Lorraine

• ISBN13: 9783540682547
• ISBN10: 3540682546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming, XP 2008, held in Limerick, Ireland, in June 2008.

Table of Contents

Agile Innovations
Essence: Facilitating Agile Innovation	p. 1
Scrum and Team Effectiveness: Theory and Practice	p. 11
Misfit or Misuse? Lessons from Implementation of Scrum in Radical Product Innovation	p. 21
Adaptation of Agile
Method Configuration: The eXtreme Programming Case	p. 32
Adopting Agile in a Large Organisation	p. 42
An Observational Study of a Distributed Card Based Planning Environment	p. 53
Agile Testing and Assessment
The TDD-Guide Training and Guidance Tool for Test-Driven Development	p. 63
JExample: Exploiting Dependencies between Tests to Improve Defect Localization	p. 73
An Agile Development Process and Its Assessment Using Quantitative Object-Oriented Metrics	p. 83
History and Evolution of Agile
Historical Roots of Agile Methods: Where Did "Agile Thinking" Come From?	p. 94
Seven Years of XP - 50 Customers, 100 Projects and 500 Programmers - Lessons Learnt and Ideas for Improvement	p. 104
People Factors in Agile Environments
Applying XP to an Agile-Inexperienced Software Development Team	p. 114
Investigating the Usefulness of Pair-Programming in a Mature Agile Team	p. 127
Conceptual Models of Agility
Just Enough Structure at the Edge of Chaos: Agile Information System Development in Practice	p. 137
A Preliminary Conceptual Model for Exploring Global Agile Teams	p. 147
Scrum Implementation Using Kotter's Change Model	p. 161
Experience Reports
Agile Estimation with Monte Carlo Simulation	p. 172
The Pomodoro Technique for Sustainable Pace in Extreme Programming Teams	p. 180
Adopting Iterative Development: The Perceived Business Value	p. 185
Explicit Risk Management in Agile Processes	p. 190
Posters
APDT: An Agile Planning Tool for Digital Tabletops	p. 202
Investigating the Role of Trust in Agile Methods Using a Light Weight Systematic Literature Review	p. 204
Agile Practices in a Product Development Organization	p. 208
Building and Linking a Metaphor: Finding Value!	p. 210
The Story of Transition to Agile Software Development	p. 212
Predicting Software Fault Proneness Model Using Neural Network	p. 215
Multi-modal Functional Test Execution	p. 218
Social Network Analysis of Communication in Open Source Projects	p. 220
Toward Empowering Extreme Programming from an Architectural Viewpoint	p. 222
A Metric-Based Approach to Assess Class Testability	p. 224
Inside View of an Extreme Process	p. 226
To Track QA Work or Not; That Is the Question	p. 228
Build Notifications in Agile Environments	p. 230
Supporting Distributed Pair Programming with the COLLECE Groupware System: An Empirical Study	p. 232
Workshops
Experience on the Human Side of Agile	p. 234
Retrospective Exploration Workshop	p. 236
Exposing the "Devils" within: Agile Taboos in a Large Organization	p. 238
BIOHAZARD - Engineering the Change Virus	p. 240
Architecture-Centric Methods and Agile Approaches	p. 242
Exploring Agile Coaching	p. 244
The Agile Technique Hour	p. 246
AOSTA: Agile Open Source Tools Academy	p. 248
Panels (Abstracts)
There's No Such Thing as Best Practice	p. 250
Culture and Agile: Challenges and Synergies	p. 251
Architecture and Agility Are Not Mutually Exclusive	p. 256
Author Index	p. 257
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